2019 Modular Rumours

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^That doesn't make any sense if that's the new modular. Release dates have been Jan 1 since at least the Detective's Office. Believe me, I worked the last four. Like I said earlier, I would be stunned if it were a Green Grocer rerelease. Even those of us that work(ed) there who are big Lego fans don't know information much earlier than the general public as LBR has gotten increasingly better at keeping things under wraps. I certainly didn't know what the upcoming modulars were this early in the year.

Only way I see the Grocer rumor being true is if they are happy with how the Taj Mahal did and decided to throw this out there too to squash ebay prices and lepin encroachment. It has a lot of out of print parts for a straight re-release though.

If #10264 is being released on 1 Nov, it won't be the next modular in the series. If they've decided to steal greengrocer 'from the vault' and re-release it on 1 Nov, that's a different thing entirely...

Wasn't the Creator Expert set with plant based elements supposed to launch in November? Could the "Green Grocer" be a nice tongue-in-cheek set to do that with?

Honestly, that would be a great way to drive sales on the new plant-based plants. "Green" in the name, design could be updated to include more foliage, and a hugely pent-up demand that would drive sales.

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned a Post Office or a Railway Station yet.

Railway Station! Yes, with a high interior lobby and easy/obvious way to integrated it with railroad tracks. Or even a center arch breezeway where you could put tracks for a train to go through the building. Eeee, i'm excited hehe. (of course a Monorail going through the building would be cool. Maybe they'd use the new roller coaster tracks.

Perhaps the platform is in the rear so if you don't have any lego trains, you won't lose out on anything.

I agree. The only side that could be considered open enough for a track to run through uninterrupted (in a full layout) is the facade side, and of course, you need the track to come out another side, which can't happen. Of course, corner buildings have two facade sides, but track cutting through the middle of the building like that would look ridiculous...A modular buildings railway station is awesome to dream about, though!

^ Keep in mind, Sand Green has had a bit of a renaissance recently - it's in a number of sets these days as detail/accent parts, or structurally like the Park Street Townhouse and Assembly Square. Not to mention The Ocean Monument. And the 2x2 macaroni bricks that were previously only in the Statue of Liberty are back in Sand Green even if the mould is different - but at 14 cents apiece on Bricks and Pieces compared to the absolute hose job that the original mould's prices are on Bricklink, it's a no-brainer.

As long as they keep making color pellets for any given shade, I can't imagine it's hard to recolor pieces. I know Jaime Berard has said that Mixel ball-joints are color-locked because other colors would need testing due to the extremely tight tolerances, but I'd imagine that a 1x8 brick doesn't require nearly the same degree of accuracy.

Also, I've had my eye on a Vestas for a long time now, had thought about BL'ing it, and now am glad I never got around to it. And it'll make a great display piece since my city has zero room left. Now, bring back Sand Red!!!!

No, it will be the case that numbers are allocated when a set is 'commissioned'. What this means is that the new wind turbine set had a short lead time from being commissioned to being released - possibly half a year? Whereas most sets have a year to 18 months lead time. This makes sense given it's a re-release.

^ Yes, very little of the time needed to develop #10268 would have been related to the model itself. I reckon they'd want it to remain as faithful to the original as is reasonable, considering it's on the same vein as the Taj Mahal.

I wouldn't mind a police station too much, only thing I wouldn't like about it is the fact that , that is all what it would be , unless they split it like they did for the brick bank. You can't really put apartments or anything above it, so it would be nothing but offices , holding,, cells, etc on all the floors.

I would place my bet on a brand new modular January 2019 and possible GG re-release taking the regular reissue set slot in November 2019...

What? We have a standard reissue set slot now? I take a break for a month or two and have to play catch up on my LEGO news. This time of year I also feel like there is a "retiring soon" slot that comes up just so I can watch my wallet sweat.

I would place my bet on a brand new modular January 2019 and possible GG re-release taking the regular reissue set slot in November 2019...

What? We have a standard reissue set slot now? I take a break for a month or two and have to play catch up on my LEGO news. This time of year I also feel like there is a "retiring soon" slot that comes up just so I can watch my wallet sweat.

I would say that it is an assumption that there is a rerelease slot rather than a fact. AFAIK the turbine has not been branded, “from the vault”

I think one of the contributing factors to the price point (aside from Power Functions) has to be the number of large pieces in this set. Big green BURP's on the base, 32x32 baseplate, and the turbine itself is made largely out of those big white curved pieces stuck together with technic pins.

On topic though, I don't think the phrasing "out of the vault" refers to a new theme or brand, it's just a descriptive phrase. Neither last years Taj Mahal or this turbine has anything other than normal Creator branding on it.

Even if TLG was to rerelease a modular, I doubt it'd have anything but Creator branding on it.

I think one of the contributing factors to the price point (aside from Power Functions) has to be the number of large pieces in this set. Big green BURP's on the base, 32x32 baseplate, and the turbine itself is made largely out of those big white curved pieces stuck together with technic pins.

On topic though, I don't think the phrasing "out of the vault" refers to a new theme or brand, it's just a descriptive phrase. Neither last years Taj Mahal or this turbine has anything other than normal Creator branding on it.

Even if TLG was to rerelease a modular, I doubt it'd have anything but Creator branding on it.

I forgot how big the old one was. $200 is still a lot, but I guess if the pieces are so large it should be fair. 39" is gigantic. I think that is with the tower plus blade extended on top but still.

There doesn’t seem to be a lot of sensical reason behind when they let us know what the next release is but it’s definitely getting closer.

Thats if one is even released....

Sometimes I think it's just about trying to pace out their announcements so that the announcement of one product doesn't overshadow another that needs the publicity more. Non-licensed Creator Expert sets can basically be announced whenever as long as it's ahead of the release, whereas announcements of stuff that involves any sort of licensing partner or ties in with some type of media event can have more particular scheduling needs.

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